Introduction to Paragraph Styles and Character Styles in InDesign
In this series, we'll focus on introducing you to both paragraph styles and character styles in Adobe InDesign. Software required: InDesign CS5.
What you'll learn
In this series, we'll focus on introducing you to both paragraph styles and character styles in Adobe InDesign. We'll begin by learning what a paragraph style is and why it's important that we integrate them into our workflows. Next, we'll learn paragraph style basics, including creating, applying, organizing, editing, redefining, and deleting our styles. We'll also learn some of the more advanced usages of paragraph styles including applying sequential styles and creating parent child relationships between styles. After wrapping up with paragraph styles, we'll move on to character styles and learn how to use them. Once we understand the difference between the two types of styles, we'll learn how to harness the power of character styles by using them in tandem with our paragraph styles. Software required: InDesign CS5.
Table of contents
- Paragraph Style Overview 10m
- Creating and Applying a Paragraph Style 16m
- Editing and Redefining Paragraph Styles 11m
- Duplicating, Organizing, and Deleting Paragraph Styles 10m
- Controlling the Flow of Paragraph Styles 11m
- Creating a Parent Child Relationship Between Paragraph Styles 16m
- Character Styles Overview 8m
- Creating a Custom Drop Cap Character Using a Character Style 6m
- Creating Custom Bulleted Lists Using Character Styles 11m
- Nested Styles: Example One 9m
- Nested Styles: Example Two 8m
- Querying Our Document for Styles 7m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more